For me it was watching horror films as a kid.
The Omen series scared the shit out of me, but not as much as watching The Amityville Horror at about nine years of age. It took me months to recover.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 16:28, 7 replies)

The Omen still fucking frightens me.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 16:47, closed)

An utter spastic I know
was one of the three potential choices to play the infant Damien (it was all shot around the Guildford area). They missed a trick, he's turned out to be a right evil little scrote.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 17:06, closed)

I know the bloke who got the part.
One Harvey Stevens...he turned out to be a right cunt too.
( bane, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 18:40, closed)

Oooh
A spastic Damien, that would have been horrific. They could have got Joey Deacon to do "The Final Conflict" though.
(Rsoles, Sat 7 Apr 2012, 13:57, closed)

I wanted to watch the Omen
I think I was a bout 10. My parents wouldn't let me so I snuck into their bedroom whilst they were watching it downstairs. I couldn't turn the light on in case I was spotted, watched it on a black and white TV with the sound turned so low down I had to be about an inch from the screen.

Didn't sleep for a fucking week.
(onemunki Down there for dancing, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 17:12, closed)

The Omen was one hell of a flick in its day. Wonderful stuff.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 21:50, closed)

Meh.
We had The BBC doing Ghost Stories at Christmas when I was a little'un. I STILL remember M.R. James' Lost Hearts. Also there were seriously creepy kid's programmes, one called The Clifton House Mystery and another one that I can't remember the name of about standing stones that fucking MOVED and CAME AFTER PEOPLE.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 6 Apr 2012, 10:19, closed)